2025-2026: Exceptional Child Teacher (PASS)

Franklin Cty•Frankfort, KY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Performs those duties required by District, State, and Federal Regulations of special education teachers. This role involves diagnosing learning needs, prescribing individual IEPs, acting as a resource for other teachers and parents, and maintaining documentation of student progress. The teacher is expected to employ effective classroom management techniques, plan and deliver instruction tailored to student differences, and ensure a positive learning environment.

Requirements

Approved Certification with the State of Kentucky.

Responsibilities

Has a prepared lesson plan that is sufficient for instructing the lesson.
Exercises proper care of materials and equipment.
Communicates needs of the classroom to the proper personnel.
Arrives for work at the assigned hour and does not leave before the assigned time.
Communicates appropriately and effectively with other staff members, parents, students, and administration.
Accepts assistance, advice, and guidance from supervisors and makes an effort to improve skills.
Shares ideas, plans, materials, and facilities.
Is alert to district, school, and personal goals and priorities and seeks appropriate professional development.
Keeps confidential information obtained during professional service private, unless disclosure serves a professional purpose or is required by law.
Respects the rights, feelings, and differences among individuals and communicates directly with those involved in any situation.
Complies with state and local restrictions pertaining to controlled substances, tobacco products, alcohol, and dress.
Does not verbally or physically harass students.
Does not use profanity in the presence of students.
Does not have any sexual contact with students.
Diagnoses the learning needs of each student, and prescribes individual I.E.P’s to meet those needs.
Acts as a resource person with other teachers and parents to promote understanding of special education student needs, and to provide assistance in working with handicapped students.
Keeps data to document student change.
Is familiar with and implements due process and procedures, and keeps proper documentation.
Assimilates and applies suggestions from related service personnel.
Employs classroom management techniques that result in an atmosphere for teaching/learning in which students can know what they are expected to do.
Begins the class promptly.
Communicates to students those behaviors expected of them, or there is evidence that expected behaviors have been communicated.
Ensures student exhibit classroom behaviors, which allow for maximum on-task behavior from all participants in the lesson.
Intervenes immediately and appropriately for inappropriate behaviors.
Chooses appropriate materials and/or equipment for teaching a lesson.
Handles efficiently the materials and/or equipment in the classroom setting.
Plans effectively with respect to establishing teaching strategies, which allow the attainment, by the students, of the lesson’s behavioral objective.
Utilizes a clinical approach to teaching (adequate diagnosis and prescription of evidence by students’ learning).
Uses Diagnostic Lesson Plan Format, Instructional Lesson Plan Format, or Review Lesson Plan Format, as appropriate.
Ensures the behavioral objective for the lesson is appropriate for the learners.
Recognizes student differences in needs, abilities, and interests and imparts instruction so that these differences are met.
Tells the student exactly what is to be learned in the lesson.
Tells the student the purpose of the learning and makes it meaningful to their lives.
Relates the learning from the lesson being taught to previous learnings and verbalizes transfer for the students.
Informs students how they will be accountable for demonstrating proficiency in the learning.
Gives students information about the learning.
Demonstrates sound, up-to-date knowledge of the subject matter being taught.
Checks periodically throughout the lesson for the students’ understanding of the objective.
Provides practice experiences for the students of the appropriate number and variety to insure mastery of the objective.
Carefully monitors the guided practice for experience to insure that students get immediate feedback as to the correctness of their performance.
Demonstrates knowledge of reinforcement theory throughout the lesson.
Ensures each aspect of the lesson gives evidence of the teacher’s attention to maintaining a classroom climate conducive to learning (Feeling Tone).
Ensures the activities of the lesson demonstrate the teacher’s desire to include the interests of the students in the classroom.
Encourages, praises, and/or acknowledges student effort appropriately.
Manages instruction in such a way that each student shows some measure of success.
Ensures practice is scheduled in such a manner as to guarantee retention of learnings.
Gives students the opportunity to verbalize the critical attribute(s) of the learning before leaving the lesson.
Collects data from the lesson that enables him/her to evaluate each student’s performance, and assists in planning tomorrow’s lesson.